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TIL a filmmaker, in order to expose “the general absurdity of what we all believe,” became a fake spiritual guru and ended up with a real group of followers who called him “the living embodiment of the divine.”

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JX9k TIL the Tsar Bomba, the single most physically powerful device ever used by mankind, had a mushroom cloud measuring over 7 times the height of Mt Everest. The shockwave was measured circling the earth 3 times and it caused windowpanes to be partially broken at distances of 900 kilometres (560 mi)
N71mM TIL Newton kept an encrypted list of sins in his private diary which was partially decoded only in 1964
YpOlx TIL that suicide rates are alarmingly high among gender nonconforming individuals. 50.8% of female to male persons have attempted suicide, 41.8% among those identifying as non binary, and 29.9% among male to female.
jNGdE TIL, though incredibly rare, left-handed snails exist, and they can only mate with other left-handed snails.
BgRQd TIL Only 1 reigning monarch speaks Czech fluently, namely, the King of Cambodia